The bottle at the back is Mdina "Tortoiseshell". (Quite different to IoWSG Tortoiseshell, which is a yellow and brown spiral pattern.)Verdala is the name given to a shape of bowl - it's named after the Verdala hotel in Malta - who commissioned them. They can come in several different Mdina colourways and they continued to be made after MH left - so are often found in later colourways.The shape of the bowl is sort of a big flat plate (raised from a small base) with straight-up sides - at right angles to the sides. They're normally around 8" in diameter - but earlier ones can be bigger.

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In the early days, ranges were not all sorted and set out - there was a lot of experimentation going on, Michael Harris was continuing to see what he could get glass to do, just carrying on from he was doing at Mdina, building on his experience constantly.

There may be a odd pink swirls with clear glass thing around somewhere. Blue and pink swirls was never even really a "proper" range, nor were blue and white, or blue and clear for that matter.The first established and named range was Seaward, in '73.

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Three Wise Women would have asked for directions, arrived on time, delivered the baby, cleaned the stables and made a casserole...